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James, I think it's impossible to ignore if you happen to be in the business of selling iSeries applications. Unless of course, you're still wearing your IBM issue blinders. What I hear from my colleagues, is not some exciting discussion of a new iSeries application they're bringing to market, but rather talk of how to milk the existing installed base long enough to carry them into retirement. And all the COMMON sound-offs, newsgroup chatter, official requests, and silent prayers are all too commonly met with indifference at best, lip service as the rule, and an increasing predilection towards arrogance and outright contempt. Why is the relationship between IBM and the developer community becoming adversarial in nature? We write the applications that sell their products, generate their revenue, increase their share price, and ultimately result in their paychecks. It seems logical to me that it's in our mutual interest to work cooperatively towards identifying and removing any obstacles to our collective prosperity. Personally, I fail to say how resorting to threats in order to stifle criticism works in either party's favour. John Taylor ----- Original Message ----- From: "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@attglobal.net> To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: More SQL precompiler > John, > > I think that this is already happening. :( > > John Taylor wrote: > > > <<SNIP>> > > > > And perhaps we, the customers, should halt all further investment in iSeries > > technologies, and tell IBM not to bother calling us until they've > > rediscovered the value of the relationship with us, and are prepared to > > begin addressing our needs. > >
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